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Subject:Re: Proper use of commas in England? From:"Huber, Mike" <Mike -dot- Huber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:12:47 -0500
I was trying to think of how I handle serial commas in my technical
writing,
and couldn't find any examples. Then I remembered: lists of more than two
items go into a bulleted or numbered format. Not an official Rockwell
Software
standard, but a practice that my mentor strongly recommended. I forgot
about it because it's automatic for me now.
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Katherine Pyle asked about the acceptability of the serial comma in
British
English.
